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Lisa Fthenakis

Lisa Fthenakis is an Archivist with the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art.

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Correspondence from President Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Lang Freer, Freer and Sackler Archives.

This Day in Freer History: May 5, 1906

On this day in 1906, Charles Lang Freer and the Smithsonian Institution agreed to the donation of his art collection and funds for the building of a museum to house it.